Mediterranean Hegemony Road

The current division of labor is that Ferdinand is responsible for digging scientists, and government departments are responsible for digging engineers. After all, it is more effective for ordinary engineers to talk to them about treatment than to talk about ideals!

Now the Bulgarian government basically follows the principle of buying equipment in big countries and digging talents in small countries!

There are many small countries in the European continent, many of which are still outstanding in modern times, and there are still some backgrounds. Historically, the United States only developed by absorbing the talents of these small countries in the early 20th century!

Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal and other countries are not short of senior engineers and warship designers. Although they are not necessarily capable, they are enough for Bulgaria to build a foundation.

In Ferdinand's view, the industrial equipment for bargain hunting in the economic crisis is the second, and attracting talents is the key. For this reason, Ferdinand has specially approved a Bulgarian Talent Introduction Law.

As long as they meet the conditions, they will be treated favorably, and all the restrictions on naturalization will be reset to zero, so they can join unconditionally, and there will be a settling fee that the government has never tried!

It can be said that Ferdinand took great pains to introduce talents!

Pay and return are directly proportional. By the end of 1903, the Bulgarian government had spent as much as 8 million pounds on the introduction of talents, and introduced more than 2,000 talents of various types.

Of course, most of them are ordinary engineers, and there are very few senior talents with real weight, and there are only twenty or thirty people who can enter Ferdinand's eyes!

However, the price Ferdinand paid was worth it. By the end of 1904, the industrial equipment purchased from various countries was operating normally. The total industrial volume of the Kingdom of Bulgaria directly surpassed that of Belgium, and was equal to that of the Kingdom of Spain!

Of course, there is water in this number. The Kingdom of Spain is not in a state at all. First, it was repaired by the Americans, and a large area of ​​the colony was lost. It has not yet recovered, and then it caught up with the economic crisis, and its vitality was greatly damaged!

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These are things in the future, and now Ferdinand is busy dealing with domestic problems.

At the end of 1901, at the annual Bulgarian immigration work conference.

Prime Minister Constantine reported to Ferdinand: Your Majesty, our exchange of population with the Ottoman Empire has now been completed.

As of August this year, we have taken back all Bulgarians living in the Ottoman Empire, a total of more than 4.38 million; and repatriated more than 2.74 million Turks to the Ottoman Empire.

These returnees have been dispersed and resettled all over the country by us. So far, their employment problems have been basically solved.

From 1897 until now, we have spent a total of 860 million levas for this great immigration.

This also includes the repatriation cost of the Turks of 120 million levs. Due to the inaction of the Ottoman Empire, this part of the expenditure is also paid by us!

In the remaining part of the expenditure, immigration costs are about 260 million levs, job placement and housing issues for immigrants, and government-issued living allowances total 480 million levs!

This population figure is quite different from what was previously expected, but Ferdinand did not feel that there was a problem. It was estimated using the population statistics of the Ottoman Empire before, and there were only a few hundred thousand errors, which shows that the Ottoman officials in charge of this work are already very conscientious!

Ferdinand asked with concern: How is the life of immigrants now?

Immigrants before 1901, their lives have entered normalization, although the living standards of some of them are still lower than the national average, but also higher than they were in the Ottoman Empire, and now there is no problem to eat enough ! Constantine replied

That's right, the resettlement standard set by Ferdinand is to eat enough food as the baseline. As for the issue of getting rich, it is not something he is considering now!

Is the demographics complete? Ferdinand asked again

Constantine thought for a while and said, It's roughly finished, but the specific numbers are still being sorted out.

Our preliminary judgment shows that by the end of 1901, the total population of Bulgaria was about 13.4 million.

Mainly include: the original 4.3 million in Bulgaria; after the Balkan War, more than 7 million in the newly added territories, and 4 million immigrants from the Ottoman Empire, as well as the natural increase in population, of course, we also migrated out 300 Thousands of people.

After the Balkan War, our total population was 11.43 million. After the war, we sent 360,000 people to the Kingdom of Montenegro and repatriated more than 2.74 million people to the Ottoman Empire.

So subtract the 3.1 million population, but we also received 4.38 million immigrants from the Ottoman Empire.

In addition to the natural increase in population, in the four years from 1897 to the present, our new population is about 700,000.

According to preliminary calculations, our current total population is about 13.39 million. Of course, the actual situation may be different, but the total error will not exceed 50,000!

Ferdinand nodded with satisfaction. This population number has already reached his initial expectations. As long as this part of the population is digested, Bulgaria's strength will definitely undergo earth-shaking changes!

Of course, it will take time to really digest all of this. On the surface, the immigrants from the Ottoman Empire are all the main ethnic group - the Bulgarians, which are easy to digest!

In fact, no one can tell how many other ethnic groups have been mixed in!

Also, in the last census, Ferdinand could roughly estimate how much water there were in the 1.8 million Bulgarians in the Balkans.

Well, on the surface, among the more than 13 million people in Bulgaria, there are more than 10 million Bulgarians alone, with the majority of the main ethnic group and a healthy population.

Ferdinand is sure that this figure is the result of water injection after water injection. If there are seven or eight layers of the original goods, thank God!

But if you know it, you know, Ferdinand has absolutely no intention of exposing it. Anyway, if he tells a lot of lies, it will become the truth. After more than ten or twenty years, a new generation has grown up, and they are the real Bulgarians!

Ferdinand nodded.

In this regard, governments at all levels must be prepared. They must go deep into every village and count the ethnic composition of our country as accurately as possible. This is related to the long-term stability of Bulgaria in the future!

Well, Ferdinand is about to be Bulgarian again. According to the current classification standard in History of the Origin of the Bulgarian Nation, there are really very few people in Bulgaria who do not belong to the Great Bulgarian!

Sending government officials deep into the countryside is, of course, brainwashing. First instill in the people the concept that everyone is Bulgarian. The reason why there are multiple ethnic groups is that the Ottoman Empire did it for the convenience of rule!

Anyway, ordinary people in this era are also fooling around, taking novels as history, and they can't figure out what's true or not. Not to mention them, even some historians have been tricked into it!

Yes! Constantine answered affirmatively

Everyone now supports Ferdinand's plan to establish a great Bulgarian nation. The endless national uprisings in the Ottoman Empire are a proper negative example!